YORK illustrator Emily Sutton’s new book Transferware Treasures is limited to only 250 signed copies and is close to selling out already at a price of £165 that will then accrue further value.

Hurry, hurry, before it too late to acquire the book of 25 watercolour paintings of 19th century pottery from the one source in York: Ken Spelman Books.

“To order one of the very few copies we have, please send an email, as we’re only taking email inquiries,” says Tony Fothergill at the Micklegate rare books shop. Those emails should be sent to tony@kenspelman.com

Emily has made a series of watercolours of the pottery – plates, mugs and jugs – found on her dresser in York.

“They are a charming set, full of the quaint and fascinating subjects which the Victorians felt appropriate, mostly for the moral benefit of their children,” says Tony.

“The paintings are delightful and quickly sold at the York Open Studios weekend in 2014.

“They have just been published together in a very long accordion-fold book measuring 275 mm square and extending to a gigantic eight metres long, hard-bound in a design using watercolours, and held in a slipcase with a label. Emily also has drawn a title page specially for the book, and signed each of the 250 copies.”

Emily’s career is truly taking off, boosted further by her largest solo exhibition so far, newly opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield. Adorning the walls of the YSP Centre until February 22 next year, Town And Country features original and intricate paintings and screen-prints, along with a flock of embroidered birds nesting in the YSP Shop window.

Her works incorporates a love of pattern and detail, drawing inspiration from Emily’s travels to Paris and southern France, as well as scenes closer to her native Yorkshire, not least the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and her own home. Indeed she references her home in her first ever limited-edition lithograph print, September Dresser (2014), produced by Curwen Studio exclusively for YSP.

Not only are all the Town And County works available to buy, but to complement the show Emily has also designed a range of merchandise of Victorian scrap screens and cloth kits.

A series of special events, including embroidery and hat-making workshops, also accompanies the exhibition, with more details available online at ysp.co.uk, where you can watch a short trailer of the exhibition.

This high-profile YSP show intensifies the spotlight on an artist and illustrator who has acquired distinguished clients around the world and illustrated books for the Victoria & Albert Museum and publishers Faber and Faber, Random House, Penguin and Walker Books. She has alsoundertaken commissions for brands such as Hermes and Fortnum & Mason and designed Christmas products for Bettys of Harrogate.

Emily, who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008, has now released the latest print in her alphabet series, J Is For Jug, available at £225 from Penfold Press. Printed in an edition of 75 and signed by the artist, the letter J continues her fascination with transferware ceramics that led to her starting her alphabet in 2010. The prints have become so collectable that many in the series have sold out.